Heloise

I am Heloise, writer, logician, feminist, nun, and lover of the philosopher Peter Abelard. Though I am a very young woman, I’m renown for my genius, and I speak and write fluently in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and French. Abelard was given to me as my tutor and we soon fell in love and I became his mistress. He was amazed by my genius, and our love was the greatest of our age. But when my protector in Paris, the Bishop Fulbert, found out about our affair, he castrated my lover and I was sent to become a nun in cloisters, locked away for the rest of my life, never to see another man again. Yet though we never saw each other again, we wrote passionate letters to each other throughout out lives. And these love letters inspired feminists in the 21stCentury to demand respect and independence.